Quotes About Originality

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe -- you can't take a taxi.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

Be who you like as long as you mean it.

The more I learn, the more I am convinced that there are no original stories. On several occasions I have "invented" an incident, and then come across it in an obscure fragment of Hebridean lore, orally collected, and privately printed, a hundred years ago.

innovation is all about being distracted —distracted from the way we normally think about things.

Never start with a clear idea of storyline. Instead, commence blindly, with a vague notion of trying to include a reference to your favourite band, gift shop, or chocolate bar.

You know what Lily Tomlin once said?" Sirius pretended to be interested in what Lily and I had to say. " 'I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

It was a wartime story, goodies versus baddies, lots of explosions and shooting. The Germans always shouted 'Aiiieeee!' as they died. Atkins wondered what he would choose, confronted with similar circumstances. 'Aiiieeee!' seemed to him to lack the necessary gravitas and originality, as well as sounding a bit, well, German. But then who knew what might come to mind, in those final moments?

Art is such a personal experience, I really try to make my own thing.

I admire anyone with their own sense of personal style.

Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.

I do not do selfies! That's a tough one because I don't do selfies, but I think it's all about personal style. The more outrageous, the better.

When someone finds their own personal style and they own it, they look good in it, no matter what it is.

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

I love people who have distinctive, unique personalities who are not in assembly lines and have something to offer.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

Art is all a matter of personality.

I was made exactly the way I was meant to be made in who I am and my personality and the way I was born.